Google today announced that it is providing the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) with $9 million in Google Cloud credits to help further its work on the Kubernetes container orchestrator and that it is handing over operational control of the project to the community. These credits will be split over three years and are meant to cover the […]
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VMware pulls AWS’s Relational Database Service into the data center
Here’s some unusual news: AWS, Amazon’s cloud computing arm, today announced that it plans to bring its Relational Database Service (RDS) to VMware, no matter whether that’s VMware Cloud on AWS or a privately hosted VMware deployment in a corporate data center. While some of AWS’s competitors have long focused on these kinds of hybrid […]
View More VMware pulls AWS’s Relational Database Service into the data centerOracle open sources Graphpipe to standardize machine learning model deployment
Oracle, a company not exactly known for having the best relationship with the open source community, is releasing a new open source tool today called Graphpipe, which is designed to simplify and standardize the deployment of machine learning models. The tool consists of a set of libraries and tools for following the standard. Vish Abrams, […]
View More Oracle open sources Graphpipe to standardize machine learning model deploymentOracle’s database service offerings could be its last best hope for cloud success
Yesterday Oracle announced a new online transaction processing database service, finally bringing its key database technology into the cloud. The company, which has been around for over four decades made its mark selling databases to the biggest companies in the world, but as the world has changed, large enterprise customers have been moving increasingly to […]
View More Oracle’s database service offerings could be its last best hope for cloud successSalesforce promotes COO Keith Block to co-CEO alongside founder Marc Benioff
Salesforce is moving to a two CEO model after it promoted executive Keith Block, who was most recently COO, to the position of co-CEO. Block will work alongside Salesforce’s flamboyant founder, chairman and CEO (now co-CEO) Marc Benioff, with both reporting directly to the company’s board. Block joined Salesforce five years ago after spending 25 […]
View More Salesforce promotes COO Keith Block to co-CEO alongside founder Marc BenioffOracle launches autonomous database for online transaction processing
Oracle executive chairman and CTO, Larry Ellison, first introduced the company’s autonomous database at Oracle Open World last year. The company later launched an autonomous data warehouse. Today, it announced the next step with the launch of the Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP) service. This latest autonomous database tool promises the same level of autonomy — […]
View More Oracle launches autonomous database for online transaction processingTech companies can bid on the Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud contract, starting today
On Thursday, the Pentagon opened bidding for a huge cloud computing contract that could be worth as much as $10 billion. Given its size, the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract, known as JEDI, is alluring for major cloud computing companies that might not normally do much business with the Department of Defense. Announced in March, […]
View More Tech companies can bid on the Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud contract, starting todayWalmart acquiring Shopify is no longer a laughable idea
As competition between Walmart and Amazon intensifies, the acquisition of Shopify’s merchant marketplace may be the boost that the Walton family’s juggernaut needs to move ahead.
View More Walmart acquiring Shopify is no longer a laughable ideaOracle could be feeling cloud transition growing pains
Oracle is learning that it’s hard for enterprise companies born in the data center to make the transition to the cloud, an entirely new way of doing business. Yesterday it reported its earnings and it was a mixed bag, made harder by changing the way the company counts cloud revenue. In its earnings press release […]
View More Oracle could be feeling cloud transition growing painsAfter twenty years of Salesforce, what Marc Benioff got right and wrong about the cloud
Grant Miller Contributor Share on Twitter Grant Miller is the co-founder of Replicated As we enter the 20th year of Salesforce, there’s an interesting opportunity to reflect back on the change that Marc Benioff created with the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model for enterprise software with his launch of Salesforce.com. This model has been validated by the […]
View More After twenty years of Salesforce, what Marc Benioff got right and wrong about the cloudYugaByte’s new database software rakes in $16 million so developers can move to any cloud
Looking to expand the footprint of its toolkit giving developers a unified database software that can work for both relational and post-relational databases, YugaByte has raised $16 million in a new round of funding. For company co-founder, Kannan Muthukkaruppan, the new database software liberates developers from the risk of lock-in with any provider of cloud […]
View More YugaByte’s new database software rakes in $16 million so developers can move to any cloudOracle acquires Grapeshot, a marketing tech startup that helps ensure ‘brand safety’
In the era of fake news and controversies over how brands’ advertising — via programmatic platforms — unwittingly ends up alongside content with which they’d rather not be associated, Oracle has made an acquisition to beef up its ability to help customers with these marketing challenges. It has announced that it will acquire Grapeshot, a […]
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